Pacific Coasting: A Guide to The Ultimate Road Trip, from Southern California to the Pacific Northwest

by Danielle Kroll

"Your illustrated guide to the perfect West Coast road trip."
--C magazine An inspiration to visit, this beautiful and practical travel guide is an illustrated keepsake, and a celebration of the wild, lush, larger-than-life 2,000 miles that run along the edge of the West Coast, through California, Oregon, Washington, and Vancouver Island. Here you'll find stunning vistas, alluring beaches, ancient forests, botanical gardens, charming villages, and a handful of great cities along the way.

From La Jolla to Big Sur to Cannon Beach to Olympic National Park, Pacific Coasting, created by artist and inveterate road-tripper Danielle Kroll, offers adventure and something new to discover every hour of every day.

• ISBN13: 9781579658717
• Publish Date: 16 March 2021
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Artisan
• Imprint: Artisan Division of Workman Publishing
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 224
• Language: English

Reviews

[annieb123]

Review to come on my blog at release: Nonstop Reader.

Pacific Coasting is a tutorial, planning, and inspiration guide to driving the Pacific coast of the USA. Due out 16th March 2021 from Workman Publishing on their Artisan imprint, it's 224 pages and will be available in hardcover and ebook formats.

This is a really engaging and appealing homage to the All-American road trip with some specific destination suggestions and a wealth of information for dreaming, planning, and execution. The introduction includes some good general info - what the pack, how to plan, and what the Pacific coast has to offer.
The following chapters are arranged more or less from southerly destinations toward the northwest (she explains why in the book). The chapters include lots of fun destinations for day trips, longer trips, or the ultimate marathon road trip from Southern California to Washington. Each of the chapters - So. Cal, No. Cal, Oregon, and Washington contain side info on different destinations and seasonal information.
The text is accompanied by a number of the author's own paintings of areas and landmarks (and whimsical maps) of the area and destinations. This is a beautifully written, illustrated, and inspirational book. I'm sitting in front of my living room window at the end of September and it's rainy, overcast, and grey, and I'm definitely California dreamin' - sunshine, palm trees, picnics, and breezes sound wonderful.

Five stars.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.